Unlikely Friendships for Kids
The Monkey & the Dove: And Four Other Stories of Animal Friendships
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Unlikely Friendships, the runaway New York Times bestseller with a compelling message of hope and friendship and differences overcome, is rewritten just for younger readers. This hardcover chapter book for children ages seven and up collects five heartwarming true stories of animal friendship: a dog that loves an elephant, a bear and a cat who become best friends, a house cat who looks after a dog as he goes blind, a lioness who protects a baby antelope, and a dove who befriends a baby Rhesus monkey.
Chapter books give young readers a strong sense of accomplishment, and these heartwarming animal stories, with their incredible photographs and inexplicable mysteries of attraction, their focus on friendship, love, and the ways that creatures of all different species can find common bonds of affection, will keep kids turning the pages to find out about the unusual ways animals help each other and discover the love of new friends.
Each is a perfect gift for young animal lovers, and a lovely subject to help kids get reading.
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Release date
May 2, 2012 -
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Kindle Book
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9780761172154
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EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9780761172154
- File size: 8445 KB
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Languages
- English
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Levels
- ATOS Level: 4
- Interest Level: K-3(LG)
- Text Difficulty: 2-3
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Reviews
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April 1, 2012
The author of an adult book about uncommon animal attachments invites emergent readers to share the warm (Unlikely Friendships, 2011). This is the first of four spinoffs, all rewritten and enhanced with fetching color photographs of the subject. It pairs a very young rhesus monkey with a dove, one cat with a zoo bear and another that became a "seeing-eye cat" for a blind dog (!), an old performing elephant with a stray dog and a lion in the Kenyan wild with a baby oryx. Refreshingly, the author, a science writer, refrains from offering facile analyses of the relationships' causes or homiletic commentary. Instead, she explains how each companionship began, what is surprising about it and also how some ended, from natural causes or otherwise. There is a regrettable number of exclamation points, but they are in keeping with the overall enthusiastic tone. The sense of wonder that infuses each simply worded chapter is contagious, and some of the photos are soooo cuuuuute. (animal and word lists) (Nonfiction. 7-9)COPYRIGHT(2012) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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July 1, 2012
Adapted from Holland's adult book, these brief true stories concern different interspecies friendships. The stories are weirdly unspecific ("One day, some people found a baby rhesus monkey all by himself in the jungle") given their factual basis. The same long introduction opens both books; photos of the actual animal pairs are combined with stock photos. Appended animal lists provide little information. Glos.(Copyright 2012 by The Horn Book, Incorporated, Boston. All rights reserved.)
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